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The Brno Cultural Newsletter provides an overview of events and opportunities in the coming period concerning theatres, clubs, festivals and cultural events in Brno. more
ProArt and No Feet will present In the Footsteps of the HAAS Brothers
Two successful brothers whose relationship was interrupted by World War II. Two geniuses who made Brno famous. Two people who never met again. Meeting Brno, in cooperation with ProArt and No Feet, is presenting In the Footsteps of the HAAS Brothers on the anniversary of the murder of Pavel Haas in Auschwitz (17 October 1944). more
News: dancer Anastasia Matvienko will perform with the Brno National Theater Ballet next week
The National Theatre Ballet is hosting another world star - Anastasia Matvienko will perform in Brno as Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty next week. more
Janáček Opera Choir announces audition for new singers
The Janáček Opera of the Brno National Theater is filling positions in its choir. The audition is announced for tenor and 2nd bass voices. more
The new junior company Ballet of the Brno National Theater (NdB2) is preparing its first performance
The unique project of the NdB 2, specifically the new junior company Ballet of the Brno National Theater, is the very first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. It started its premiere season this September. The composite evening consists of three choreographies called Uroboros, Na krásném modrém… and Vodník. more
The Italian rapper and performer M¥SS KETA, who has been hiding her face and identity throughout her career, will perform in Brno. She will present her show for her new album Club Topperia at the Fléda club for the Czech premiere. The rapper has been hiding her face and identity her whole career. more
Moravia Brass Band will celebrate its 5th anniversary today with a gala concert
The largest brass ensemble in the Czech Republic will celebrate five years of its existence today at Besední dům. The evening will also include the launch of their new CD. more
VUS Ondráš is looking for a new cello player
The Military Art Ensemble Ondráš announces a vacancy for the position of cello player in the professional part of the ensemble. more
JazzFestBrno has announced the names of the main stars of the next edition. The main announcements of the festival’s headliners will be the singer and pianist Diana Krall, and for the first time ever the iconic string ensemble Kronos Quartet, celebrating 50 years on the scene, will perform at the festival. Other personalities of the 22nd edition of the festival will include guitarist John Scofield, pianist Tigran Hamasyan, and double bassist Dave Holland. more
Update: production of The Greek Passion received a nomination for The International Opera Awards
Janáček’s opera at the Brno National Theater (NdB) has been shortlisted for this year’s The International Opera Awards. The NdB’s production of The Greek Passion, directed by Jiří Heřman, has been nominated in the “New Production” category. more
Connection, unity, contemplation - these words can be used to describe the musical evening of Schola Gregoriana Pragensis under the direction of David Eben and organist Tomáš Thon, which took place yesterday as part of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music at the church of St. Thomas. Not only the singing of a Gregorian chant, but also the works of composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) enlivened the church space with sound and colour for an hour. more
With a concert called Ensemble Inégal: Yesterday at the church of St. John, Zelenka opened the 31st edition of the Easter Festival of Sacred Music, this time with the suffix Terroir. This slightly mysterious word, which is popularly used in connection with wine, comes from the Latin word for land or soil, and carries the sum of all the influences, especially the natural conditions of a particular location and on the plants grown there. This term is thus metonymically transferred to the programme of this year's VFDH, as it consists exclusively of works by Czech authors, thus complementing the ongoing Year of Czech Music. more
For the fourth subscription concert of the Philharmonic at Home series, which took place on 14 March at the Besední dům and was entitled Mozartiana, the Brno Philharmonic, this time under the direction of Czech-Japanese conductor Chuhei Iwasaki, chose four works from the 18th to 20th centuries. These works are dramaturgically linked either directly through their creation in the Classical period or by inspiration from musical practices typical of that period. The first half of the concert featured Martina Venc Matušínská with a solo flute. more
The second stop on the short Neues Klavier Trio Dresden's Czech-German tour was at the concert hall of the Janáček Academy of Music on 6 March at 16:00. A programme consisting of world premières by two Czech and two German composers was performed in four cities (Prague, Brno, Leipzig and Dresden). more
The last opera première of the National Theatre Brno this year was Hurvínek Sells the Bride, which was co-produced with the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre. The première continued the thematic focus associated with the Year of Czech Music and took place on 24 November in the large hall of the Reduta Theatre. more
